Question of the Day #622

"'I had to get over my fear of doing the livestreams, and playing a screaming ass song and then...crickets. No response,' says Fetters during a recent phone interview."

From the 2nd paragraph of this article at City Beat.

上記の文で、cricketsの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "crickets" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎等にこの適訳がないので下記Cambridge Dictionaryの定義を訳すと、

全く返事や反応がないこと、口頭や文書による返事がないこと

ユーモラスにまたは人を愚弄するよう使用される。
用法は、下記例文を参照してください。

Answer

According to Cambridge Dictionary:

no reply or reaction at all; no spoken or written answer

Examples

• Don't you hate when you're talking to a group of people and you ask them a question and you get crickets?
• I sent them two emails about it and basically, crickets.
• Since then, I've received no response. Not a word. Just... crickets.
• We asked for an explanation, but all we heard was the sound of crickets.
• "She promised to give me a progress report last week. Since then --- *crickets*"

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